I need help. I haven't had much of a proper vacation in a year and a half. Since I started studying in the fall of last year, the stre...

Last night, Greg of the New Dork Review of Books * tweeted an article in which author Jhumpa Lahiri denounces American literature as being ...

There is a trope in fiction that I'm sure you've all come across - the story of the novelist. Whether the novelist is a side charact...

I didn't like Stone in a Landslide . Could that be my entire review? Could I leave it at that, in the hopes of avoiding riling up read...

It's been a very long time since I read a book like The Golem and the Jinni . I'd heard quite a bit of praise for the novel going ar...

In the wake of my post from a couple weeks ago about the dismal percentage of women writers who have been translated into English, I cannot...

I'm really beginning to doubt whether or not it was wise to start my literary relationship with Alice Munro through Too Much Happiness ....

A realization: most of the books in translation I've read this year have been written by men. A quick run through my reading list confir...

I'm not sure what it is about Heidi Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky . It's not that anything about it was inherently b...

Here's the thing I've had to accept about my life right now: I don't have as much time to read. I just don't. Lives are mess...

I'm just about a quarter of the way through Akata Witch  by Nnedi Okorafor and to be perfectly frank, there is no point in continuing. I...

If there's one thing I don't shy away from, it's my belief in the negative review. I strongly believe that negative reviews are ...

It's official. Karen Lord is not only an author to watch, but she's an author to hunt, track down and follow with a passion. Last ...

This is one of those cases where if I'd read Little Fingers  first of Filip Florian's books (both translated by Alistair Ian Blyth),...

I'll be blunt: Melissa's post at Scuffed Slippers and Wormy Books about children's reading scores and their according recommend...

* This review is of the translation from Norwegian into Hebrew. As far as I can tell, the lead story "Thomas F's Last Notes to the ...

Once or twice a year, I'll read a book that is so amazing, so wonderful, so utterly entrancing that I will devour it eagerly and also ho...

I had only a few distracted hours separating between  Between Friends  and  And the Mountains Echoed . It was an abrupt and rather unpleasan...

Between Friends ... between friends Readers may recall a few months ago I read Amos Oz's The Black Box , saying that I was debating ...

One of the reasons I joined Twitter a couple months ago was to breach what I felt was an uncomfortable divide between myself and the greater...